But there is nothing piecemeal, messy or controversial about the results: In the first 6 months of 2007, container recycling rates have increased by more than 6% overall, and the state is on track to recycle 15 billion containers in 2007--that's 1.7 billion more containers than were recycled in 2006.

Additionally, new recycling incentives and opportunities established by AB 3056 have increased the tonnage of plastic containers recycled by nearly 25%, to more than 187,000 tons of plastic containers recycled.